MicrostockGroup

Microstock Photography Forum - General => Off Topic => Topic started by: stormchaser on March 07, 2009, 14:48

Title: Giant Raid on File Sharing Site in Sweden
Post by: stormchaser on March 07, 2009, 14:48
I found this interesting. Wonder if there are photo thieves on here as well? More likely a warez and music site I think.

Giant server seized in raid on file-sharing site

Swedish police find computer with 65 terabytes of files

From AP - updated 9:00 a.m. ET, Sat., March. 7, 2009

STOCKHOLM - Police have made a major crackdown on illegal file-sharing by seizing a giant computer server during an apartment raid in a Stockholm suburb, an official said Saturday.

Henrik Ponten, a spokesman at the Swedish Anti-Piracy Bureau, said the server contained about 65 terabytes of files, corresponding to around 16,000 full-length movies.

"The size of the works are gigantic," he said, noting it was one of the biggest pirate server confiscations ever in Sweden.

Police raided the apartment in Brandbergen, in southern Stockholm, in the beginning of February after the anti-piracy bureau filed a report about it, he said.
 
More here at the source link

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29566891/

Title: Re: Giant Raid on File Sharing Site in Sweden
Post by: Magnum on March 07, 2009, 15:42
No point in stealing microstock anymore.  It almost for free anyway...
Title: Re: Giant Raid on File Sharing Site in Sweden
Post by: leaf on March 07, 2009, 16:25
Also along the same lines, have you been following The Pirate Bay court sessions...

http://gizmodo.com/tag/the-pirate-bay/

The trial has been in Sweden and the verdict is coming soon weather the owners of the pirate bay will be convicted or not.
Title: Re: Giant Raid on File Sharing Site in Sweden
Post by: CofkoCof on March 07, 2009, 19:42
There was an interesting event in the pirate bay trial:
http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-witness-wife-overwhelmed-with-flowers-090227/
Title: Re: Giant Raid on File Sharing Site in Sweden
Post by: leaf on March 08, 2009, 05:25
There was an interesting event in the pirate bay trial:
[url]http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-witness-wife-overwhelmed-with-flowers-090227/[/url]


ha ha... fun story :)
check out this one quote
Quote
“We have been married for 38 years. He proposed half an hour after we met and I said maybe. After a day, he had convinced me”,